“The fact that they are willing to do that even it’s not on the court or anything, they’re carrying them and including them in their win last week, I mean that’s a really big thing,” Hayden-White’s mother, Katie, told KSHB.

Making him a coach for a game stands out as one of the special honors Hayden-White has experienced. As special as that may have been for him, there’s little question it mattered almost as much to the players who he was technically overseeing, if only for a day.